Beloved BK Restaurant Amarachi Fights to Stay Open
, 2023-01-03 19:33:45,
Amarachi, a beloved Brooklyn restaurant and bar that has hosted events for visiting Nigerian kings and New York City power players like Eric Adams, is asking the Brooklyn community for help as it fights to keep its doors open after 18 years in business.
Two weeks ago, Joseph “Bub” Adewumi started a fundraiser to help save Amarachi, the business he and his wife Maxine started in 2004 with a vision for uniting the global Black diaspora.
Over nearly two decades, Amarachi has become a beloved institution both in the Black community and for those who celebrate and support Black culture.
The Downtown Brooklyn restaurant — a stone’s throw from Manhattan Bridge and Borough Hall — serves a unique menu that combines Nigerian, Caribbean and African American cuisine. It has launched and supported countless Black-owned businesses, hosted parties for both royal visits and grandmas’ birthdays, and has been a place where discussion about Black self-determination has flourished.
Joseph was born in the U.S. but grew up in Nigeria. The seeds for his mission were first sown when he moved back to New York in the 10th grade, and he said his accent and style had changed, and he felt “culturally insecure,” even ostracized, by other Black American kids due to being African.
He pushed against those…
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